Philadelphia Eagles and former USC wide receiver Nelson Agholor returns a punt during a team practice at Angel Stadium in Anaheim on Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2017. (Photo by Matt Masin, Orange County Register, SCNG)

Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Carson Wentz pauses between reps during a team practice at Angel Stadium in Anaheim on Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2017. (Photo by Matt Masin, Orange County Register, SCNG)

Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Carson Wentz walks on the field to start a drill during a team practice at Angel Stadium in Anaheim on Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2017. (Photo by Matt Masin, Orange County Register, SCNG)

The Philadelphia Eagles stretch during a team practice at Angel Stadium in Anaheim on Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2017. (Photo by Matt Masin, Orange County Register, SCNG)

Philadelphia Eagles players players move between drills during a team practice at Angel Stadium in Anaheim on Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2017. (Photo by Matt Masin, Orange County Register, SCNG)

The Philadelphia Eagles stretch during a team practice at Angel Stadium in Anaheim on Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2017. (Photo by Matt Masin, Orange County Register, SCNG)

Philadelphia Eagles and former USC wide receiver Nelson Agholor returns a punt during a team practice at Angel Stadium in Anaheim on Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2017. (Photo by Matt Masin, Orange County Register, SCNG)

Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Carson Wentz returns to the line after throwing a pass during a team practice at Angel Stadium in Anaheim on Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2017. (Photo by Matt Masin, Orange County Register, SCNG)

ANAHEIM – He was first asked about the velocity of his fastball and then later about teaming up with Mike Trout.

Given that Carson Wentz does his pitching in the NFL, the questions could have seemed a little odd.

On Wednesday, though, they were no more out of the ordinary than the sight of the Philadelphia Eagles practicing in a baseball park.

There they were, running routes, pass protecting and generally X-and-Oing all over Angel Stadium, which, in a past lifetime, of course, was home to the Rams.

The Eagles are here this week preparing to face the Rams, whose second lifetime in L.A. has them now playing in the Coliseum, and who knew following the NFL required the most sophisticated of GPS technology?

Philadelphia was in Seattle on Sunday and, rather than return all the way home, team officials decided it would be easier on everyone to just stay on the West Coast.

And, as an added bonus, Coach Doug Pederson explained, “You get a chance to be in the sunshine a little bit.”

That’s a decided advantage over Philadelphia, where the projected highs this week are in the low 40s, with a 100-percent chance of gray.

The Eagles and Rams will meet in the NFL’s headlining matchup of Week 14, a game that has playoff-seeding and home-field implications and features young star quarterbacks in Wentz and Jared Goff.

The one thing the game won’t have is Trout, the two-time American League MVP and, as a native of New Jersey, noted Eagles fan, the contents of his locker here often including Philadelphia gear.

“He’s back home, I think, hunting it up all over the place,” Wentz said. “But we stay in touch. I’ve dropped him a couple texts.”

I’m not sure if Trout was hunting Wednesday or not, but I’m thinking there’s a decent chance he was busy with other things. He’s getting married on Saturday, and hunting isn’t part of the traditional rehearsal dinner.

Trout’s favorite NFL team, meanwhile, is occupying his place of work, his actual corner locker the domain by linebacker Nigel Bradham.

Though Wentz and Trout have built a relationship centered on the Eagles, not everyone on this team claims to be close to the Angels outfielder.

“I have to be honest,” receiver Nelson Agholor admitted, “I’m not much of a baseball fan.”

Even in a season during which Wentz has emerged as an MVP candidate, perhaps no player better embodies the Eagles’ 2017 rise than Agholor, the former USC standout finally showing why he was a first-round pick.

In his third year, Agholor is thriving as an explosive option coming out of the slot, a place often reserved for pass-catchers better known for their sure hands than their swift legs.

He already has set career highs in receptions (40), yards (599) and touchdowns (seven), Agholor’s success the result of a sharper confidence and a clearer head.

“Mentally, I can put myself in a storm,” he explained last season. “But I need to jump out of the storm.”

Agholor began to remake himself in the offseason, going so far as to change his jersey number from 17 to 13. Who knew dropping four digits could lessen a weight he evidently had been feeling?

“For me, it was just having the confidence in him, the trust in him that he was going to be the receiver the Eagles saw (coming out of USC),” Pederson said. “That’s what he’s proven to be. (He’s) playing with a lot of confidence right now.”

As are all the Eagles, who represent a franchise that hasn’t won a playoff game since January of 2009, when Philadelphia reached the NFC title game and lost to Arizona, the Cardinals at the time being quarterbacked by Kurt Warner.

Seriously, it has been that long, the gap large enough that since then Warner has been elected to the Hall of Fame and the Eagles have employed seven different starting quarterbacks, including Kevin Kolb and Vince Young.

I’m not sure about you, but, to me, it certainly seems like the Eagles have been better than that of late.

Instead, the Angels have won a postseason game more recently, and we all know how much that team has been mocked in recent years for a lack of playoff success.

These latest Eagles are 10-2, tied for the best record in the NFL and coming off their first loss in nearly three months.

The atmosphere around this team is so positive that three of the four people who forecast outcomes for The Philadelphia Inquirer picked the Eagles to beat the Seahawks, who are historically so tough at home that their fans have earned a nickname.

The media members who follow teams from Philadelphia are notoriously hard to please. Yet, The Inquirer again is predicting success Sunday for the Eagles, the one writer so far on the record calling for a 31-30 win at the Coliseum.

“It’s a blessing to get a chance to be back here,” Agholor said. “I look forward to just having fun with my brothers and introducing them to the stadium and making plays there again.”

From a baseball park to a college venue, Agholor and the Eagles would love to pull a Mike Trout this week, go deep and then trot through a victory lap that doesn’t end until they finally reach home.

Mike Trout isn’t here but he made sure every Eagles player had his bobblehead at their locker, with a note of welcome pic.twitter.com/Ds8CG0qJg9

Jeff Miller has been a sports columnist since 1998, having previously written for the Palm Beach Post, South Florida Sun-Sentinel and Miami Herald. He began at the Register in 1995 as beat writer for the Angels.

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